 | John Tyndall - Science - 1892 - 508 pages
...the pollenmasses, which are thus stuck to the back of the bee and carried away. * When the bee, so provided, flies to another flower, or to the same...the bucket, and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass upon its back necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma,' which takes... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...spirits of wine, with a bee which he had killed before it had quite crawled out with a pollen-mass still fastened to its back. When the bee, thus provided,...the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily conies first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...spirits of wine, with a bee which he had killed before it had quite crawled out with a pollen-mass still fastened to its back. When the bee, thus provided,...the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1903 - 146 pages
...the pollenmasses, which are thus stuck to the back of the bee and carried away. " When the bee, so provided, flies to another flower, or to the same...the bucket, and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass upon its back necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma," which takes... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Laing, Ellen W. Blackwell - Botany - 1907 - 476 pages
...first happens to crawl out through the passage of a lately expanded flower, and are thus carried away When the bee thus provided flies to another flower,...viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the flower is fertilized. Now at last we see the full use of every part of the flower , of the water secreting horns,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1874 - 844 pages
...glue ; then against the pollenmasses, which arc thus stuck to the back of the bee and carried away. " When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower,...to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by his comrades into the bucket, and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass upon its back necessarily... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...spirits of wine, with a bee which he had killed before it had quite crawled out with a pollen-mass still fastened to its back. When the bee, thus provided,...the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Scientists - 1926 - 384 pages
...happens to crawl out through the passage of a lately expanded flower, and are thus carried away. . . . "When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower,...the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the... | |
 | George Levine - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...is it that when the bee repeats the experience in another Coryanthes, the pollen on its back comes into contact with "the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the flower is fertilised"? (Origin, pp. 179-180). The example is Darwin's, but could easily, to this point, be part of an argument... | |
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When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower, or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its comrades into the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and... 
